Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-16

| NC4 c'ALN Jus wa WGuL 20 20 N uDaI
lmous, you know Csrtisan got 8 buggl
| 70 drive 10 the telegraph station, four
miles of, and n the stable asked the host
! Ter what kind Of chance there would be
! for 'Jenkirsn holding out in case the
! other eleven were agreed. "He amt 90.
| the backbone 20 do il, with the feeling
| there Is on the subject" said the stable
man, The dispatch was accordingly sent,
stating that me jury had found Yerdic:
! OF murder, which proved correct. CARR
gan made another "teD-strike" in the
| Hayden case. He got g long written
document from the condemned man, who
said as he stood On the galiowS ''MY
complete statement VIII be found in the
Boston --.n Ii must have reminded
the listeners of the familiar appendix
"Fhe continuation Of this beautiful
story" etc, but the reporter was fully
entitled to the advertising which ne gain
ell for his Journal by the many little kind
nesses he had done TIE prisoner during
his confinement.
! psir OF Boston newspaper men cot
summoned 6 short while ago before The
grand jury fCr contempt in publishing be-
fore the proper time the fact that the
Jurors had found no Indictment agsiHst 8
resident Of New M-Xic0, supposed to be
THE PARTY WHO SHOT MR.. LANE
in his own doorway st RoNbury some
wears ago. The reporters, Messrs. j. p.
Frost and ID. j. Saunders, rad printed the
i-Ct that somebody belonging 70 Alou-
querque had evidence tending to impli-
cate smother person there and that after
hearing the case the grand Jury decided
rot TO find q bill. I was q handsome
exclusive" but the delight which the
journalists felt in it was modified when
they found that District Attorney Stevens
vas after them, snd the prospect Of "a
more or less extensive sojOurn in Chgrtres
street Jail wss looming darby on the
horizon. Upon being summoned TO
court, they replied to all questions as to
now they obtained tEeiT Information With
9 ster5Otyped, Coy advice of my counsel l
decline TO answer and after Judge Brig.
ham, G-F. Stevens and MIR. PillsDury had
discussed the pros and cons of the matter
FOR Su hour, they were allowed to 90,
possibly with some lingering regret on
their part, IS no true reporter would fail
to appreciate such 81 experience as & real
incarceration in Z real jail would give
him.
Tae lbOughtiess eXpressi0U,Gf n honest
Official and the quick wit Of 3 young
newspaper man enabled q Boston paper
TO give on Saturday morning the verdict
" The Jury in the CJfey- Cullen mqa-
slaughter case, when was tried last i&ll,
and Tss not rep 1rtej in court till the
following Monday. Mr.. Quinn Ws5 he
tailed TO get the verdict, II he could. The
Jurors were cautioned against revealing
their decisions 10 anyone, AMI hints were
thrown away on such Of them IS Mr..
Quinn endeGyOred to Interview At last
ne went TO the residence OF an officer Of
the cJu-l aud tried TO get some
iukliuC Of the verdiC.., bat
tn; officer stouuy declined to cid
hun. "Why, l cau't do II" he said 81
am sworn TO secrecy, aud to tell you
would Ee IS much IS my piece is
worth. Besides, If thst verdict should
get III tine papers before the court comes
comes in on Monday CUrIey would be
justified in asking for 2 new lrial." The
reporter went to his office end wrote
paragraph, stating that Cofcy was found
guilty; and so he was. Curley was
Coffey'5 lawyer, and neither Mr.. Quinn
nor Guy other man ever heard OF lawyer
demanding new trial for client found
mot guilty.
Reporters have on many occasions
reaped great benefit from having been en-
gagged in telegraphy before entering upon
newspaper work. Among the classics Of
the profession is the story how William
L, Sawyer secured his reports of tbs GER
emoEit5 attending the landing Of the
French cable at DuXDUry. Half g dozen
scribes were sent there, wao passed Z
~ IN Of ali g., y,F int
est, using b0ats and bUggies interviewing
sayants aud citizens. Sawyer, being Ct
LEIsURELY TURN or MIND,
went only as far as Kingston, seven miles
from Dgx5Ury. Every noon and evening
when his brothers OF the gull arrived ST
the telegraph office with their dispatches,
be would COOliy plant himself il chair
o ItSide the window and take down all the
salient points which the noisy telegraph
were revealing about the
cable. When ne had picked the best out
Of the lot he would 90 inside, tske
"key'' and rattle off to his newspaper tbs
fullest snd best report, on the whole,
which any Boston paper received. The
boys were eXaspersted as they came ia
d2v after day, tired with their exeGtiOns,
and sew him sitting there Oh the shady
side Of the piazza, out what could
they do? At another time he was
sent to get 2 Masonic celebration
st Springfield, and, finding himself mixed
up on the teChnicalities, crlbbed Tom
AIGguire's report entire, as an operator
clicked il off to Boston. Tom had no
right to complain, as the trick was an old
ore of ais own, and which he frequently
to. Among the many instances
where he found his art Of value was On
when he went with S. II. Sturgis
to get some information from { railroad
superintendent about q rumored pur-
chase by his corporation. The "super"
refused 20 say word, end the reporters
were turning away, when Msguire's
quicb ear noted that an operator in the
office was sending dispatch about the
very thing he wanted to learn. He
whispered to Sturgis, "Keep him talk
ing" and gained time enough to get al
he cared for.
Harry I. Chamberlain, one Of the best
SHOWN Of the present Boston reporters,
tE.nk that telegraphiC knowledge is quite
rs valuable 10 men Of mis- profession as
ajeDCgraphy. The click, click of the
electric current has more than once re-
Fga'ei vaIusble information &c him. When
telephones were in their experimental
stage, ne sat enc evening at the Hyde
PARK telegraph office aud heard the tune